Vodafone, the U.K. telecom company, is enabling customers to make and receive phone calls via an Amazon Echo Speaker with Alexa, its digital voice assistant, built in. According to a report in the Mirror, customers link their mobile phone number to their Alexa account and...
The Knowles Corporation has announced the creation of a new hands-free solution, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) to build headphones, headsets and wireless earbuds that allow users to talk directly to Alexa. The Knowles AISonic SmartMic Headset Development Kit for...
Amazon has announced the launch of Alexa Conversations, a new deep learning-based approach that developers can use for creating natural voice experiences on Alexa with less effort, fewer lines of code, and less training data. “This new model helps developers create natural, flexible dialogs within...
Ricoh has announced the launch of RICOH Intelligent Voice Control through a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver intuitive voice-activated controls for Ricoh’s intelligent devices. The service will start with Ricoh’s IM Series of intelligent multifunction printers (MFPs), with a pilot program currently...
Amazon, the eCommerce giant based in Seattle, announced last week that its Alexa Announcements feature is now available for all certified Alexa built-in products. In a blog post, the eCommerce giant said that Alexa Announcements enables customers to make and receive one-way announcements to and...
Amazon’s voice-activated assistant Alexa has emerged as the most-used voice assistant on the market. That’s according to Digital Trends, which — citing Amazon — reported Alexa is found in more than 60,000 smart home devices from 7,400 companies. That’s up from just 12,000 devices a...
Amazon Alexa is expanding the capabilities of Alexa Routines. Launched in fall 2017, Routines allows users to carry out such tasks as scheduling actions, carrying out multiple tasks with a single word or creating custom voice commands. Setting a Routine for the Amazon Echo is...
Amazon is bringing Alexa in-skill purchasing — which allows for developers to generate revenue from voice apps — to Japan, the U.K and Germany, according to reports. The option was introduced in the U.S. last year, and allows developers to get money through apps by the...
Scientists at Amazon’s Alexa division are set to present the first systematic study detailing the advantages of neural text-to-speech (NTTS) systems from multiple speakers. The study revealed in tests involving 70 listeners that a model trained on 5,000 utterances from seven different speakers resulted in...
